Nicholas Khoo

Bio: Nicholas Khoo is an academic researcher from University of Otago. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & International relations. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 24 publications receiving 247 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicholas Khoo include University of Liverpool.

The USSR, Asia, and the End of the Cold War: Perspectives on Unwanted Visionaries

Abstract: Editor’s Note: The academic literature on the end of the Cold War has focused predominantly on the Cold War in Europe. Few studies have appeared of Soviet policy toward Asia in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Sergey Radchenko’s book Unwanted Visionaries partly redresses this imbalance by offering a detailed account of how the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tried but ultimately failed to restructure Soviet relations with Asian countries. Radchenko contends that even if the USSR had not disintegrated, Gorbachev’s efforts in Asia would have encountered formidable obstacles. The Cold War ended in Europe in 1989 but continued to shape Soviet ties with China, Japan, North Korea, India, and other countries. To understand why Gorbachev’s efforts in Asia proved of no avail, we asked two prominent experts on the Cold War in Asia to offer their appraisals of Radchenko’s book. Their commentaries are followed by Radchenko’s reply.

The Evolution of International Security Studies

Abstract: International Security Studies (ISS) has changed and diversified in many ways since 1945. This book provides the first intellectual history of the development of the subject in that period. It explains how ISS evolved from an initial concern with the strategic consequences of superpower rivalry and nuclear weapons, to its current diversity in which environmental, economic, human and other securities sit alongside military security, and in which approaches ranging from traditional Realist analysis to Feminism and Post-colonialism are in play. It sets out the driving forces that shaped debates in ISS, shows what makes ISS a single conversation across its diversity, and gives an authoritative account of debates on all the main topics within ISS. This is an unparalleled survey of the literature and institutions of ISS that will be an invaluable guide for all students and scholars of ISS, whether traditionalist, ‘new agenda’ or critical. • The first book to tell the post-1945 story of International Security Studies and offer an integrated historical sociology of the whole field • Opens the door to a long-overdue conversation about what ISS is and where it should be going • Provides a detailed institutional account of ISS in terms of its journals, departments, think tanks and funding sources

국제정치이론 = Theory of international politics

Abstract: Therefore, the seeker after the truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them, the one who submits to argument and demonstration, and not to the sayings of a human being whose nature is fraught with all kinds of imperfection and de‹ciency. Thus the duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself the enemy of all that he reads, and, applying his mind to the core and margins of its content, attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency. (Ibn al-Haytham)1